Director : EMMA HOUGH HOBBS, LEELA VARGHESE
Cast : SHABANA AZEEZ, GEMMA CHUA TRAN, RICHARD ROXBURGH, BERNIE VAN TIEL, MARK BONANNO
Australia | 2025 | 87 mins
In English
Lesbian, Comedy, Animation
# Post-screening sharing
* Producer in attendance
* GIO Audience Award, Best Australian Feature, Sydney Film Festival
* Teddy Award and Panorama Audience Award, Berlin International Film Festival
* Hong Kong Premiere
Schedules
14/9/2025 (Sun) 3:00pm – PREMIERE ELEMENTS#
20/9/2025 (Sat) 5:40pm – PREMIERE ELEMENTS
Synopsis
A crybaby space princess, Saira, kicks off a galactic quest to save her faithless ex-girlfriend Kiki who is held hostage by the Straight White Maliens. She is then joined by a runaway gay-pop idol while running into dangerous maniacs and other hazards, along with the scariest thing of hers-self-doubt. Inspired by their own lives, the filmmaking couple’s debut animated feature talks about the importance of self-worth and self-love while ironising sexism, homophobia and transphobia in a Rick & Marty style. This Teddy Award winner will surely delight you with its abundance of LGBTQ+ jokes.
Post Screening Q&A Sharing
14/9/2025 (Sun) 3:00pm – PREMIERE ELEMENTS
Moderator : Teresa Kwong
Featured Guest : Lesbian Space Princess Producer, Tom Phillips
After the screening of Lesbian Space Princess, we invite you to stick around for an engaging discussion about the producer’s journey and the creative process behind bringing this Teddy Award-winning film to life.
Tom Phillips is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. He recently produced Lesbian Space Princess (2025), an animated comedy that premiered in Berlinale’s Panorama Programme and won the Teddy Award, along with Audience Awards at the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival and the 2025 Sydney Film Festival. In 2019, he created the digital series Lucy and DiC, which garnered over 4 million views on YouTube and Facebook. Tom was also named one of Screen Producers Australia’s Ones to Watch in 2018.
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